Once upon a time, there was a large group of Wall Street analysts who would pound the table on a regular basis. They insisted that if Apple didn’t release an ultra low-cost iPhone to compete with the wave of dirt-cheap Android phones flooding the market, the company’s iPhone business would be doomed. Less than two …
It’s the last big iPhone 8 mystery! Will it? Won’t it? What on Earth is the deal with Touch ID?? Early iPhone 8 rumors made it seem like a sure thing that the handset would be the first widely available smartphone to feature an in-display fingerprint sensor. Since then, however, more and more doubt has …
In 1997, Apple was on the brink of bankruptcy and had to take on a $150 million investment tied to a patent-licensing deal from its heated rival Microsoft in order to stay afloat. Ten years later in 2007, the company would unveil the iPhone and set itself on a course to becoming the most valuable …
Apple shed more than $40 billion in market capitalization in mere minutes on Tuesday afternoon as the company reported its first revenue decline in more than a decade and its first iPhone sales decline ever. But Apple didn’t just report declines, it reported huge declines and missed Wall Street’s earnings estimates by a shockingly wide margin. iPhone …
After all this time, you can finally feel it in the air: virtual reality and augmented reality are about to make the leap we’ve all been waiting for. As far as mainstream devices go, VR had all but been abandoned until Oculus came along and rekindled the world’s interest in virtual reality. Development of VR solutions …
Apple’s iPhone is doomed. It’s going to die. We’ve been hearing about various “iPhone killers” ever since Apple’s first smartphone was released back in 2007. Apparently, the iPhone has more lives than a litter of kittens. Sometimes when we read about an iPhone killer, it’s just some random also-ran device that a blogger or tech journalist …
Apple’s iPhones are the only smartphones out there that still excite people, but our first look at what is likely the brand new iPhone 7 design couldn’t have possibly been less exciting. In fact, it’s hardly brand new. It looks… like an iPhone 6. But if Apple has taught us anything in recent years, it’s …
What on Earth is going on here? Earlier this month as the annual Mobile World Congress trade show kicked off, we saw more smartphone innovation in a single week than we had seen all year last year. Perhaps in the past few years, even. Making things even more interesting is the fact that we’re seeing innovation not …
Mobile World Congress isn’t technically over until Thursday, but the biggest announcements from this year’s show are already behind us. We’ve seen some fantastic innovations across the board at MWC 2016, from smartphones and laptops to accessories and a whole new category of mobile companion devices. But the most interesting development at the show might …
Wall Street doomsday preppers pounding the table on the notion that “peak Apple” has come and gone may soon find themselves in an interesting predicament. There is little question that Apple’s meteoric iPhone sales growth will slow to a halt and even decline in 2016. Apple has already acknowledged as much when it reported results …
